Weird Tales/1953

January
Volume 44, Issue 8

Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas


 * Once There Was a Little Girl • Everil Worrell • novelette
 * I Can't Wear White • Suzanne Pickett • short story
 * The Gloves • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
 * The Werewolf of Ponkert [*Master] • H. Warner Munn • novelette
 * Wet Straw • Richard Matheson • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Richard Matheson (A); 29Dec80; RE0000084683.)
 * Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 8Jul80; RE0000062844.)
 * Six Feet of Willow—Green • Carroll K. Michener • short story
 * Hand of Death • Marjorie Murch Stanley • short story
 * The Phantom Soldier at Ticonderoga • Dr. Cyrus Macmillan • article
 * Red Ghosts in Kentucky • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

March
Volume 45, Issue 1

Cover art by Virgil Finlay


 * Slime • Joseph Payne Brennan • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Joseph Payne Brennan (A); 1981-06-08; RE0000094341.)
 * The Talkie Dolls • Donald F. Vieweg • short story
 * Caveat Emptor [*Gavagan's Bar] • L.Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt • short story
 * Night Court • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • novelette
 * In Camera • John Ward • short story
 * The Raft • Kirk Shaw • short story
 * Mrs. Penleath's Stratagem • T. W. Speight • short story
 * The Dream Merchant • Harold Lawlor • short story
 * The Supreme Witch • Appleby Terrill • short story [Reprint from October 1926]
 * Don Quixote on Market Street • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
 * Who Are We? • Frances Rogers Lovell • verse

May
Volume 45, Issue 2

Cover art by Joseph Eberle


 * Whisper Water • Leah Bodine Drake • short story
 * The Living Eyes • Justin Dowling • short story
 * I'll Be Back • David Eynon • short story
 * Strange Harvest • Donald Wandrei • novelette
 * Morthylla [*Zothique] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
 * A Corner for Lucia [*Tex Harrigan] • August Derleth • short story
 * Between Two Dreams • Felix Marti Ibanez • novelette
 * The Vengeance of Kali Mai • Garnett Radcliffe • short story (© Copyright Restored due to URAA; published in the UK, 1951)
 * Mandrake • Adam Hull Shirk • short story
 * Wife of the Dragon-Fly • Paul Ernst • short story
 * A Fog Was Blowing • Stanton A. Coblentz • verse
 * Requiem for a Sinner • Pauline Booker • verse

July
Volume 45, Issue 3

Cover art by H. Silvey


 * L'Affaire Verenekin • David Lewis Eynon • short story
 * The House in the Valley • August Derleth • novelette
 * Slaughter House • Richard Matheson • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Richard Matheson (A); 1981-11-13; RE0000105581.)
 * The Source of It • Glen Malin • short story
 * The Missing Room • Lyn Venable • short story
 * On the Elevator • Joseph Payne Brennan • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Joseph Payne Brennan (A); 1981-06-08; RE0000094341.)
 * Dread Summons • Paul Ernst • short story
 * The Sea-Witch • Nictzin Dyalhis • novelette
 * House of Life • Dorothy Quick • verse

September
Volume 45, Issue 4

Cover art by Jon Arfstrom


 * I Loved Her With My Soul • Everil Worrell • novelette
 * The Watcher Awakes • Kirk Shaw • short story
 * Parthenope • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
 * An Offering to the Moon • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
 * The Ebony Stick • August Derleth • short story
 * The Devil's Cabin • Vance Hoyt • short story
 * The Beetle • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
 * The Man Who Walked on Air • Michael Avallone • short story
 * The Tree-Man [*Gerald Canevin] • Henry S. Whitehead • short story
 * The Dark Things • Dorothy Quick • verse
 * Six Merry Farmers • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

November
Volume 45, Issue 5

Cover art by ?


 * Way Station • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
 * The Legs that Walked • Justin Dowling • short story
 * The Red Balloon • Q. Patrick • short story
 * The Man Upstairs • Harry W. Currier • short story
 * The Black Stone • Robert E. Howard • short story [Reprint from November 1931] (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, November 1931; Steinberg Press, Inc. R230427.)
 * The Crying Child • Dorothea Gibbons • short story
 * Thing of Darkness • G. G. Pendarves • novelette
 * The Disc Recorder • August Derleth • short story
 * Demon Lover • Dorothy Quick • verse
 * Suspicion • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse